Tag: South Georgia Maritime Zone

• Friday, November 10th 2023 - 10:35 UTC

  UK “must expand the Blue Belt” in Overseas Territories to shield the Antarctic from Chinese industrial fishing

  

  By Sir Oliver Heald (*) The UK’s Blue Belt Programme for ocean conservation in our Overseas Territories is one of the Conservative Party’s biggest environmental achievements of the past thirteen years.

• Tuesday, December 5th 2017 - 08:48 UTC

  South Georgia launches four-year toothfish licensing round

  

  The Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands has launched the next toothfish licensing round. The documentation offered provides information for anyone applying for a license to fish for toothfish in the South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands Maritime Zone for the years 2018 – 2021. The deadline for applications is 10 December, according to the latest SGSSI Newsletter.

• Friday, May 2nd 2014 - 08:51 UTC

  South Georgia re-adjusts license conditions to reduce sea birds by-catches

  

  One of the most significant seabird by-catches in over a decade occurred in the South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI) Marine Zone last week, by the Chilean longliner Antarctic Bay.

• Wednesday, October 16th 2013 - 20:38 UTC

  HMS Richmond on south Atlantic patrol visits South Georgia Island

  

  HMS Richmond was on patrol in the South Georgia Maritime Zone at the end of September and came to anchor off Hope Point on the 27th for a three-day visit, reports the September edition of the South Georgia Newsletter.

• Friday, May 10th 2013 - 07:23 UTC

  Falklands’ denies political impact of Argentine South Georgia scientific cruise

  

  News this week that Argentina had decided to undertake fisheries research in the South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI) is not connected in any way to the Falklands, Acting Governor Sandra Tyler-Haywood has assured.

• Wednesday, January 23rd 2013 - 09:02 UTC

  South Georgia implements additional measures to safeguard Marine Protected Area

  

  The United Kingdom Minister for the Overseas Territories Mark Simmonds welcomed the announcement of a set of additional measures to safeguard the sustainable-use Marine Protected Area (MPA) around the South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands.

• Friday, January 28th 2011 - 18:24 UTC

  Toothfish quota reduced in South Georgia

  

  THE South Georgia toothfish quota dropped from 2800 tonnes to 1800 tonnes this year, with a reduction in the number of vessels from 9 to 6, confirmed the Senior Executive of the Government of South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands (GSGSSI) Martin Collins today.